(Washington, D.C.)—Professor Areg Danagoulian and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were selected as the 2019 Arms Control Persons of the Year through an online poll that drew participants from over 100 countries. The annual contest is organized by the independent, nongovernmental Arms Control Association.
U-M Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (NERS) Assistant Professor Brian Kiedrowski has been awarded the Charles and Elizabeth Schrock Faculty Development Professorship. The newly established position was created through an endowment from the Schrocks to recruit or retain faculty in recognition or expectation of outstanding contributions to teaching and research. Kiedrowski was unanimously voted to Continue Reading »
Professor Sara A. Pozzi has been named a Fellow with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) effective January 1, 2020. Prof. Pozzi is a faculty member with the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences and the Department of Physics at the University of Michigan. She is being recognized for contributions to neutron Continue Reading »
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The Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification has selected the four doctoral fellows: Connor Awe, Edward Callaghan, Tyler Johnson, and Kristofer Ogren. More about the fellows can be found here and the announcement can be found below.
The $25 million grant will “foster development of concepts and technologies that keep the United States at the forefront of nuclear monitoring and verification capabilities and allow us to nurture tomorrow’s nonproliferation experts,” said Dr. Brent K. Park, NNSA’s Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation.
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Advancing technologies to identify bomb-making nuclear materials, ferret out secret nuclear weapons facilities and detect nuclear detonations anywhere in the world is the aim of a new $25 million program led by the University of Michigan and funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration.
The effort brings together 14 universities and 13 national laboratories. It Continue Reading »
Our biggest congratulations to Dr. Göran Ekström for being elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors for a scientist or engineer in the United States!
“Ekström’s work spans many facets of global earthquake seismology, from the nature of individual earthquakes and other seismic sources to the large-scale structure of the Earth. Continue Reading »